Alibaba has produced its first semiconductor IP – a RISC-V processor core. The core was developed by Alibaba’s IC unit called Pingtouge and called Xuantie 910. Pingtouge says Xuantie 910 is available for licensing and related code will be released on GitHub. Pingtouge says that Xuantie 910 is the most powerful RISC-V core ever developed ...

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Earlier today SoftBank announced Vision Fund 2 saying it has MOUs from investors totalling $108 billion. Vision Fund 1 raised $97 billion. Softbank says it will invest $38 billion in VF2 and that others investing are Microsoft, Foxconn, Apple, the National Bank of Kazakhstan, Standard Chartered Bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group , Sumitomo Mitsui Financial ...

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Intel had Q2 revenue of $16.5 billion, down 3% YoY. Operating profit was $4.6 billion and net profit was $4.1 billion. was Data-centre revenue of  $5 billion was down  7% YoY. PC-related revenue of $8,8 billion was up 1% YoY. IoT revenue was $986 billion up 12%. Mobileye revenue was $201 million up 16% Memory ...

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 The 2018-2023 global GDP and IC market correlation coefficient will reach 0.88 (0.94 when excluding memory), up from 0.87 in the 2010-2018 time period., says IC Insights. The increasingly close correlation between worldwide GDP growth and IC market growth through 2018, as well as its forecast through 2023 is shown below: Figure 1 From 2010-2018, the ...

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Xilinx had $850 million revenues for calendar Q2 up 3% from calendar Q1 and up 24% y-o-y for a net profit of  $241 million (GAAP) or $249 million (non-GAAP). Calendar Q2 Financial Highlights (in millions of $) Po “I am pleased to report that we were able to achieve the mid-point of our revenue guidance for the ...

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UK defence and aerospace contractor Cobham has been bought by US private equity fund Advent for £4 billion. Cobham has been struggling to get back on track after incurring very large debts on takeovers. It needed a £500 million rights issue when it ran into trouble on a USAF contract. Cobham CEO David Lockwood called ...

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ST had Q2 revenues 0f $2.17 billion; a gross margin of 38.2%; an operating margin of 9.0%; and net income of $160 million. H1 net revenues are $4.25 billion with a gross margin 38.8%, an operating margin ofb9.6%, and net income of  $338 millio. “As planned, in the second quarter we returned to sequential revenue ...

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The SOX gained 2.2% yesterday after TI’s optimism about Q3 gave the market reassurance. TI’s own shares went up 8%. Although TI’s Q2 revenues were down y-o-y at $3.67 billion, the company forecast Q3 revenues of $3.65 billion to $3.95 billion. Asked about China sales, CEO Rich Templeton replied there was “nothing unusual” about them. ...

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Mouser has signed a global distribution agreement with Wilcoxon Sensing Technologies to distribute its vibration monitoring and sensing products. The Wilcoxon product line includes a range of general-purpose, hazardous-area certified, and Highway Addressable Remote Transducer (HART)-enabled sensors, plus intelligent vibration transmitters and cost-effective enclosures. Wilcoxon’s 786 series sensors are available in a wide range of sensitivities and options including low ...

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